The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-10-19
THE WESTERN STATES.

! THE Waterways Convention at Peoria Ill,
adopted resolutions calling upon the General
Government to accept the locks and dams coded
by the State of Illinois; also that it complete
two locks and dams now being constructed,
and that Congress authorize that corps of en-
gineers be sent to survey and report upon the
feasibility of waterway between Joliet and
Chicago suitable for the largest river steam
ers The Hennepin Canal project and inn
provement of the Mississippi and its branches
were also ndorsed. A committee was named
to present the resolutions to all the national
political conventions of 1855 for recognition
in their platforms.
FROM the testimony taken before the Cor
oner at Huntington, Ind, with regard TO the
Kouts disaster, it appears that the list of IA
talities will not exceed nine The railroad
men claim that the night was so foggy that
danger signals could not be seen in time TO
| prevent the accident
A CLEVELAND dispatch says fire broke out
in the laundry room of the Northern Ohio
Insane Asylum at Newburg Wednesday even
ing. A high wind prevailed and the flames
spread with great rapidity. There was
fearful panic among the unfortunate inmates,
and wild rush was made TO escape. The
attendants did all in their power to quiet the
| poor wretches, and as expeditiously as posi-
BILE removed them from danger under guard.
| Six incurable patients, aged women, lost their
| lives.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND was given royal
welcome by the people Of Kansas City, on
! Thursday Mayor Kumpf delivered the adj
dress of welcome, and the President replied
in a speech considerably longer than those he
has been in the habit of making. After refer
ring to the wonderful growth of Kansas City,
he said
When leave you I shall go on my way OF
travel to visit our fellow cit zens in the South
shall bear to older cities the impression made
by my observation of the new, fresh, and as
| founding growth OF these of the West l shall
see there n section OF our country whose pros
| perity is necessary to your prosperity. / shall
not find people needless Of our nations growth
and welfare, but I shall find there, as we'll
here, determined cheerful, American
| pride OF country stimulating to activity and en-
terprise and leading not less there than here to
national greatness and glory. The West and
I the South. and eyory section are hand in hand
in this sublime mission. and no discord or parti
san hate and rancor should be allowed 20 Inter-
| rupt the cadence OF their steady tread
The President laid the foundation stone Of
the new building that is being erected by the
Young Mems Christian Association. In the
afternoon public reception was held at the
Custom House, where some fifteen or twenty
thousand people passed before the President
and his wife four abreast There was no at
tempt at hand-shakng. In the evening, after
witnessing pageant in their honor, the Presi-
dental party left for Memphis.
A GATHERING of excited persons at Minneap-
oils, Mimi, Thursday night, burned in effigy
Alden j. Blethen, editor of the Minneapolis
Tribune, which paper published an editorial
commenting in severe terms on the tour of
lhe President and his wife, and alleging that
Mrs Cleveland married the President from
motives other than true affection After the
straw figure had been consumed the men
marched to the Tribune Office and removed
picture of Mr. Cleveland which had been ex-
posed in a conspicuous position since his visit
TO the city.
EX-CoNGREssMAN THAD C. Pound, of Wis
consin, has been appointed by the President
as Commissioner to inspect section of rail-
road in California aud Oregon.
BIG scheme is on foot in New Mexico for
the irrigation of 1900, 600 acres of fruit and
farming land in the Central Rio Grande Valley
1t is proposed TO draw water for the purpose
from the Rio Grande into canal which will
be $50 miles in length.
A SPECIAL dispatch from Tahlequah Indian
Territory says:
Serious trouble is anticipated when the Cher
okee Council meets. II is hard to soc how
bloodshed can be averted. When the late cleo
ton was over, on the face Of the returns, as
certified by the nine national clerks, Joel
Mayes was declared elected Chief by
14S majority. Since then the returns
have been changed to count in Robert
Bunch, the opposition candidate. Both parties
tive candidates will be seated. The only way
to settle this question is by force, there being
no court TO appeal 70. IL will be fight between
corrupt men and peace-oving citizens. In
OF trouble IL is stated IL will result I'm opening
up the country and destroying tribal relations
Both sides are armed for a pitched battle
IN his verdict on the Kouts disaster the
Coroner charges it to the negligence of the
train dispatcher and of the engineer of the
freight train, and censures the company for
allowing crippled engine pulling passen-
ger train TO be on the road few minutes in
advance of fast freight
CHICAGO special: @George Francis Train
did not speak last night az he had intended
TO, because the police prevented the meeting.
Mayor Roche instructed Chief Ebersold and
Inspector Bonfeld to suppress the erratic
orator, and not TO permit him TO make any
more harangues in this city"